Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-09-10
PERSONAL AND lMPeRSONAL.

Grace Blaukley, a Fort Hamilton
girl, thirteen years old, swan the New
York Narrows, distance of mile and
ahalf
Mrs. e. NJ. Hutton, the richest
woman in Baltimore, inherited twenty
million dollars from her father, Thomas
Winans.
AT an Introduction in Buffalo few
days ago a curious coincidence oc-
cured. Said the mutual friend: "Miss
Cummings-Mr. Goings."
Miss Ellis, the Boston young lady
who is attending physician of the Queen
of Corea, receives the snug salary OF
eighteen thousand dollars per annum.
The Buffalo Courier declares that
ait is safe to say that there are seventy
five thousand people in Buffalo to-day
that have never seen Niagara falls nor
| heard their X wing.
Prof. Z. S. Morse. oi Sale ,.Mrss.,
now has collection of more than four
thousand pieces of Japanese pottery
all historically classified and repre-
senting every era in the development
Of the art
The Concord (Cal.) Sun says:
They tell queer story of a justice OF
the peace in the western portion OF
Contra Costa County, whose daughter
recently asked him what he meant to
give her for birthday present. he
was just doing, but he grunted out;
Ten dollars or ten days.
1t is recorded of a young fop who
visited one of the Rothschilds, that he
was so proud of his malachite sleeve
buttons that he insisted upon exhibit
ING them to his host The latter looked
r at them and said, "Ycs, it is pretty
stone. have always liked it. have
; a mantel-piece made of it in the next
! roomw -Phiiadeiphia call.
!. A Fulton County merchant re-
8 ceivcd letter the other day from q
0 party stating that they had bought
: some goods at his store about slXtecr
or seventeen years ago for which they
" paid one dollar, that they then took
dozen buttons and stick Of dres
braid, and that it had been bearing OF
n their mind ever since. They then in
n closed twenty-five cents in postage
u stamps to pay for them.
u A story is told of a retort given b.
h President Arthur 10 an Indiana man
= who, in trying to say something agree
able, had managed to say somcthin:
quite the contrary. 1t was toward tn
end of the Presidential term. Th
= Hoosicr had called at the White Hous
= and was about to depart. Il presum
a a you are getting ready to step dow
n and out" said he to the President
"Out but not down." was General Al
thurs quiet response. up to the pee
?. ple.'
1t General John Bidwell, who recent
a. a. ly gave eight acres of his great ranc
:, at Chico, Cal, as . site for the ne'
n. Normal School of Northern California
went to that State long buforo the di-
covery of gold. He bought his ranc
of 80, 900 acres for $4,000. and now it
m worth s., 900, and yields an incom
N of 800, 600. General Bdwell used to b
N a great wine producer. but his secon
10 wife has induced him to root out a
' his wine grapes and replace them wit
raisin grapes,
The following Endorsement wa
As made by colored preacher on the bac
st of marriage license returned to the o
'G flee of the county register: "l,--
~, ~ did united those parties that W;
" licens, on q day of June, 1887, togciht
in matrimony, in the name of tn
Father, and of the Son and of the Hol
ID Cost 1887, at the house OF --
p in Wilmington, n. c., according
al laws of New Hanover Co, TogathC
i' * in the name of the Son and Of the Hol
~ Cost. y Wilmington (N CO. Star.